Does your garden look like it's having fun? Pink-flowering perennials can add a feeling of playfulness to the home garden. The romantic pink hues can be enjoyed throughout the season and blend well with cool colors of purple, blue and white but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow.

Europe and Asia have given American gardeners thousands of pink flowering plants to choose from. For starters you can use taller shrubs or perennials such as buddleia, canna, pink breath of heaven, hibiscus, peony, roses and spirea to create a backdrop for shorter plants. You can also use a pink clematis vine, bower vine or climbing rose to hide a fence.

In front of those plants you can layer in some perennials such as cuphea, daylily, dianthus, origanum, phlox, sedum, and veronica. Finally, add some low growing spreaders such as armeria, calibrachoa, geranium, thyme or verbena to fill in between.

Do you have shaded areas? No problem. You can create the same effect with a background of abutilon, camellia or rhododendron. Then layer in some astilbe, azalea, bergenia or heuchera to give your borders some definition.

Don't just limit your planting to the ground. Many pink flowering plants look great in containers for patios and decks or even in hanging baskets. You can even create a blend of annuals, perennials, and ornamental grasses to make any pot, urn, window box or decorative planter look fantastic all season long.

Many pink flowering perennials such as achillea, chelone, echinacea, gaura, monarda, penstemon, and salvia varieties are also wonderful at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds. But most of all they will spice up a garden and make it come alive with color. So what are you waiting for? Come on down and pick up some pink flowering plants for your garden today.

Fall is the time to plant spring blooming bulbs for that wonderful first show of spring that we all love! When you think of spring, daffodils (Narcissus) or maybe crocus come to mind, but there are many other bulbs for fall planting to bring gorgeous color to your spring garden. Some of these even have bloom times that extend into the early summer. These bulbs are originally from all parts of the world. Aren't we lucky that we can grow them here, too!

Preparing your soil for bulb planting is simple. Amend with a good planting mix like Whitney Farms Bulb Mix where you intend to plant your bulbs. As you dig each hole for the bulbs, add a bulb food like Lilly Miller Bulb and Flower Food. Each bulb, corm, rhizome or tuber requires a different planting depth. Follow the packaging instructions or ask one of us for help.

Following this preparation and giving your bulbs the sun/shade and watering that they require will bring you a vividly colorful spring garden.

Click here to see our gallery of some of our spring-blooming bulbs.